Best team: Any team that can beat Alabama anywhere, anyway, is the best team in the country that night.

And that team was Auburn, which had a 34-28 win that was no fluke. It's not a fluke when you rush for 296 yards. Sure Alabama missed field goals and sure the Tigers won on a rare, sort of flukish play.

But 296 rush yards? Against Alabama?

Yeah, Auburn is good.

Most rare thing you saw: If you watched Auburn's Chris Davis' 100-yard (actually 109, but college football does not count yards in the end zone in the length of returns) return of a missed field goal for the Tigers' game-winning touchdown, you might have wondered if you had ever seen that play before.

You may have seen it this season, but if you haven't, it's been a long time.

But if you haven't seen Beckham's, then you haven't seen that happen for a very long time. After Beckham's return, LSU's sports information department did some research and found that the last missed field goal to be returned for a touchdown before Beckham's return was way back in 1968, when Clemson's Richard Iuzzi did it against Georgia.

That means, if you are 44 and younger, it hadn't happened in your lifetime until this year.

There were at least five other games this weekend that on most weekends would have been the game of the week. It just so happens that this week, they were up against a rivalry game to decide a division championship decided on a play that hadn't happened in 45 years.

What were some of the also-rans?

LSU Tigers quarterback Anthony Jennings (10) throws the winning 49-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter during the game between the Arkansas Razorbacks and LSU Tigers at Tiger Stadium on Friday, November 29, 2013. (Michael DeMocker, Nola.com / The Times-Picayune)

Try an overtime Egg Bowl won 17-10 by Mississippi State. Or an LSU 31-27 win over Arkansas decided on a 99-yard drive led bya true freshman quarterback, Anthony Jennings, who had barely played meaningful snaps before this weekend.

Or a double-overtime Georgia win over Georgia Tech. Or a Vanderbilt win over Wake Forest decided on a last-minute field goal set up by a Jordan Matthews catch that was the play of the day before somebody decided to return a missed field goal for a game-winning touchdown. Heck, I'd even throw in a Missouri win over Texas A&M?

All were great games. But they weren't decided on the play of the year in college football ...

Or, wait a minute, wasn't the Prayer in Jordan-Hare the play of the year?

Heck, let's vote:What's the bigger miracle?Team that bombed: Ole Miss losing in the Egg Bowl is the team that jumps out, but not just for what happened in the Egg Bowl.

The Rebels were 7-3, ranked No. 24 in the country and faced Missouri and Mississippi State to finish the season. Instead of taking that step forward into the nation's elites, the Rebels took two steps back. They failed to score more than 10 points in either game, lost both and ended up the No. 2 SEC team in Mississippi.

While Ole Miss and Mississippi State finished tied in the SEC West standings at 3-5, give the Bulldogs the edge after the 17-10 Egg Bowl win.

Team that helped itself most: Auburn gets the edge over Missouri.

I think there's been a feeling all year -- fueled in part by SEC West dominance over the East in recent seasons -- that the SEC East champion would be viewed as something close to second-rate unless that team won the SEC championship game.

Given that, Auburn beating Alabama to win a coveted Western Division crown trumps Missouri beating Texas A&M to clinch the East. Missouri still has a bit to prove by becoming the first East team since Florida in 2008 to win an SEC championship game.

Best play you heard about: Chris Davis' return is going to go down with plays like Doug Flutie's Hail Mary to Gerald Phelan and "The Play," where Cal scored through the Stanford Band in the annals of great moments in college football.

So, yeah, you've heard of that one, haven't you?

Vanderbilt wide receiver Jordan Matthews (87) is congratulated by Jordan Cunningham (84) after Matthews caught a pass for a 25-yard gain against Wake Forest safety Anthony Wooding Jr. (11) in the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013, in Nashville, Tenn. Vanderbilt kicked a field goal on the drive to win 23-21. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Best play(s) you might not have heard about: If you haven't seen Jordan Matthews' 25-yard catch in a double team to convert a fourth-and-11 on Vanderbilt's game-winning drive against Wake Forest, you should.

But, to be honest, while it was the most clutch great catch of the weekend, it wasn't the best catch in a double team to keep a rally alive. On the play where LSU lost quarterback Zach Mettenberger to a knee injury in Friday's win over Arkansas, receiver Jarvis Landry made a spectacular grab of an underthrown ball, reaching over a Razorback defender to snag the 32-yard pass.

Best performance you heard about: Chris Davis' field goal return was one play, but for body of work throughout a game, you have to go with Missouri quarterback James Franklin, who passed for 233 yards and two touchdowns and added 80 rushing yards on 18 carries in the Tigers' 28-21 win over Texas A&M.

Franklin was solid enough that I think it's fair to wonder if Missouri could have won the East with Maty Mauk at quarterback for these last two games.

Georgia's Todd Gurley (3) takes the handoff from Georgia quarterback Hutson Mason (14) for a short gain against Georgia Tech during the first half of an NCAA football game on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Tulis)

Best performance you might not have heard about: While everybody was focused on the conclusion of the Iron Bowl, they may have missed Todd Gurley put his team on his back in overtime.

In Georgia's 41-34, double-overtime win over Georgia Tech, the Bulldogs ran four offensive plays in two overtime periods. All four were runs by Gurley for 50 yards and two touchdowns.

His 25-yard run in the first play of the second overtime proved to be the difference in the game. He finished with 20 carries for 122 yards and three touchdowns.

Stat of the Day: 6, as in the number of turnovers committed by Clemson in South Carolina's 31-17 win. Clemson had more yards (352) than South Carolina (318), but could not overcome the miscues.

Stat of the Day 2: 6, as in the number of games involving SEC teams that were decided by a touchdown or less in the last weekend of the season. Two of these games went into overtime and three more were decided in the final two minutes.

Stat of the Day 3: 2, as in the number of passes LSU freshman quarterback Anthony Jennings completed all season before he connected on 4 of 6 throws to engineer a 99-yard, game-winning drive late in the fourth quarter of the Tigers' 31-27 win over Arkansas Friday. Jennings, who came into the game the previous series after Zach Mettenberger suffered a knee injury, completed a 49-yard touchdown pass to Travin Dural with 1:15 left to win the game.

They said it: Alabama linebacker C.J. Mosley on Auburn gaining 296 rushing yards against the Tide:

"They did a good job with their run scheme and they ran the ball up the
middle. When they started cutting our edges is when they made the big
plays on us."